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Thursday, March 6, 2014

Global SITREP B14-14: A Primer on the Crisis in Ukraine and Crimea

6 March 2013: Since 1991 Crimea has been an autonomous republic within the
framework of the unitary post-Soviet Ukrainian state. There are many
autonomous republics throughout the territory of the former Soviet
Union, most are in Russia itself, and Ukraine has one - Avtonomna Respublika Krym / Autonomous Republic of Crimea.

Crimea
is an autonomous parliamentary republic that is governed by the
Constitution of Crimea which established its autonomy and authority
within Ukraine. The Crimean Autonomous Republic has its own independent
budget and manages the sum of its territory as its own property.

On
May 5, 1992 the Crimean parliament declared itself to be independent;
its Constitution became the law of the land on the same day. Ukraine
unilaterally annulled this declaration seven days later. Ultimately in
1992 a compromise was agreed to between the Ukrainian and Crimean
parliaments and Crimea reverted to being an autonomous republic within
Ukraine.

In 1994 the Crimean parliament wrote a new Constitution
for itself. In 1995 Ukraine under pro-Russian president Leonid Kuchma
began direct rule of Crimea by presidential decree. Thus the Crimean
people's desire to see to their own affairs was quashed by
totalitarianism from Kiev. Later in 1995 a new Crimean Constitution was
drafted and ratified by all parties in December 1998. Article 135 of the
Ukrainian constitution mandates that any Crimean constitution must be
approved by the Ukrainian parliament.

Herein lies the crux of
Vladimir Putin's claim of indigenous Crimean forces (ethnic Russians for
the most part) overthrowing totalitarian rule from Kiev. What we know about this is
that Russian Spetsnaz (Special Forces) made this overthrow possible. The Russian actions constitutes preemptive foreign military intervention in the affairs of a foreign state and one of its autonomous republics.

In my assessment what this crisis is about is an undemocratic coup d'etat in Ukraine that was followed in very short
order by another undemocratic coup d'etat in Crimea which was born of over 20 years of
totalitarian struggles between former Soviet Republics.

In my opinion we (NATO/US) do not have a dog in this fight. This is about former Soviet
states continuing to sort their own affairs out. All of Ukraine should
put its existence to a referendum, let the individual Oblasts and autonomous regions and cities of Ukraine decide who they want
to be a part of, or not be a part of, and let them do it peacefully.

3 comments:

I fully agree that we need to stay out of the internal decisions in Ukraine. They, ultimately, will be the ones who bleed and die for their cause. On the other hand I do not expect Vlad to do other than he already is. I fear for the fate of Poland eventually.

Again, in the opening verses of Ezekiel 38/39 Gog of Magog has assembled and been a guard for a great military force that is prepared and possibly even on-the-move towards an objective in a direction other than south, when suddenly God puts hooks in his proverbial jaws, turns him around and forcibly leads him as one would lead a cow to slaughter.

This is how Gog of Magog and his entire force are brought to their annihilation on the mountains of Israel.

I am mindful of the fact that Ukraine lies in a westerly direction for Gog. So is Poland and the rest of NATO. But NATO nations Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are to the 'utmost north.'